Multimodal Literacy in Education

This multilingual volume delves into multimodal literacy within educational contexts,exploring its significance across diverse cultural settings. From Singapore’s integrationof multimodal meaning-making into the English language syllabus to Slovenia’sreevaluation of pictorial semiotic sources in primary school textbooks, each chapteroffers nuanced perspectives on implementation and impact. Contributors illuminatemethods to enhance students’ understanding of multimodality and genre, advocatefor audio description in language education, and explore multimodal texts’ role in historicaleducation. Through theoretical discourse and practical illustrations, the bookelucidates how multimodal texts foster student agency and enrich learning experiences.Offering insights into methodologies and pedagogical approaches, it equips educatorsto integrate multimodal practices effectively. By highlighting the transformative potentialof multimodal literacy, this work contributes to ongoing scholarly conversations ineducation, prompting a reevaluation of traditional literacy in the digital era.